Gathering device for corn-harvesters.



No. 675,174. Patenid May 28, lam. P. B. STILL.

GATHERING DEVIEE FUR CORN HKRVESTEBS.

(Application filed Feb. 6, 1901.I (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Shoot l.

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No. 675,l74. Patented May 28, l90l. P. B. STILL.

GATHERING DEVBCE FOR CORN HABVESTEBS.

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

PHILLIP B. STILL, OF WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DEERING HARVESTER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GATHERING DEVICE FOR CORN-HARVESTERS.

SPEGIFICATION foI-ming part of Letters Patent No. 675,174, dated May 28, 1901.

Application filed February 8,1901. Serial No. 46,522. (No model.)

1'0 all whom at may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILLIP B. STILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Woodstock, in the county of McHenry and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gathering Devices for Corn-Harvesters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is'a plan view of m ystalk-gathering devices, and Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same.

I show my invention as applied to a corn harvester of the kind in which the stalks of corn are bound into bundles while still standing; but it may be applied to any kind of machines which gather and cut the stalks of corn.

In Fig. 2 the transverse members of the main frame are shown in section, and the drawing may be considered as showing the machine as if out on a line between the main body of the machine and the gathering devices.

A is the grain-side supporting-wheel, secured to the divider-bars B and B in any suitable manner.

b, b, and b are portions of the. transverse members of the frame.

The stubble-side portion of the machine may be considered as supported in any suitable manner and motiop given to the various parts as shown and described in the patentgranted to Henry E. Pridmore, No. 611,078, dated September 20, 1898. I

Upon the gathering-bar B the usual framework is supported.

C is a post secured to the frame-bar b and extending upward in such a manner as to supportthe board C, the latter being secured divider-bar B near its point at o.

not only to the top of the post C, but to the shaft (1, which is rotated by any suitable means by the sprocket-wheel d. Adjacent to the sprocket-wheel upon this shaft is a bevel-gear d Upon the board E a bearing is formed for supporting the lower end of the shaft F, and upon the board C is a bearing 0 for the upper end of the shaft F. Secured to the lower end of shaft F is a bevel-gear d which meshes with bevel-gear d Upon this shaft is the sprocket-Wheel f. Immediately above the board 0 is the board 0* and connected thereto by the piece of Wood 0 the bolts 0 being passed through the three parts for proper securement. Between the boards C and C near the front end of the latter, a strong pin passes, on which is the sprocket-wheel g. Arou nd the sprocket-wheel f and the sprocketwheel 9 is thrown the toothed chain G. At the lower end of the shaft F is secured a sprocket-wheel f, and to the frame just forward of the cutting apparatusI asupport for the sprocket-wheel h is placed. Over the latter and the sprocket-wheel f is thrown the toothed chain H. B y the rotation of the shaft F both gathering-chains G and H are given movement. Supported in suitable bearings and 70 on the board 0 is the shaft K, having'at its rear end the bevel-pinion 70 which intermeshes with the bevel-gear f secured to the upper end of the shaft F. Adjacent the shaft-bearing k is the universal joint 70 which connects the shaft K to the shaft of the worm L, the upper end of which is sup* ported in the bearing Z and the lower end in the bearing Z at the dividenpoint. By rotation of the shaft 01 through the intermediacy of the bevel-gears d and d motion is imparted to the sprocket-wheels f and f, which causes the gathering-chains G and H to move in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1. Through the instrumentality of the bevel-gears f and k the shaft K and the worm L, coupled thereto, are given rotation. By precisely similar means the worm L and the chain G and II are given their proper movements. I thus have a pair of gatheringchains having extended forwardly therefrom chains G, G, projecting forward of the chains H, H, and the screws L, L, projecting forward and downward from the chains G, G, all combined substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

I PHILLIP n. sTILL. l

lVitnesses:

D. '1. SMILEY, J. H. PITKIN. 

